resilience

In his On Tanks vs Tractors IoT blog last week Anton Chuvakin from Gartner “philosophized” that anything that is on the Internet should be built as a machine of war. His message was that tractors must be designed to be robust and run safely with lots of operational resiliency, however when building tanks (or anything connected to the Internet) you must go beyond that and include deliberate attacks in your design requirements.

Enterprise and governments are struggling to maintain their complex IT infrastructure in the face of ramping security pressures and rampant attacks.